In last blog, we discussed about what is kubernetes and what are it’s advantages. In this second post of the series, we are going to discuss
how to install the kubernetes locally on your machine.You can find all the posts in the series here.

Installing Kubernetes on Local Machine

One of the cool features of kubernetes that it can be installed and tried out in local. It behaves exactly as it will be on a cluster. To try out
kubernetes on local we need to install minikube and kubectl.

The below are the steps

Step 1 :Pre-Requisites

To install the kubernetes on local machine, we install minikube. But minikube normally uses some kind of virtualization layer to install the
needed software. So for our example, we will use virtualbox as our virtualization layer. For more pre-requisites refer here.